Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice
(Part of the Women in Culture and Society Series)
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In late sixteenth-century Venice, nearly 60 percent of all patrician women joined convents, and only a minority of these women did so voluntarily. In trying to explain why unprecedented numbers of patrician women did not marry, historians have claimed that dowries became too expensive. However, Jutta Gisela Sperling debunks this myth and argues that the rise of forced vocations happened within the context of aristocratic culture and society. Sperling...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226769364
ISBN13:9780226769363
Release Date:March 2000
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:434 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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